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David Lobdell was a translator of Canadian literature. His translations include works by Marie-Claire Blais, Wilfred Lemoine, Michele Maillot and Andre Major. He died in 1991.

The Canadian Locomotive Company Heritage Society was founded January 1980 to gather records of the Canadian Locomotive Company and oral histories from former employees.

Professor, Department of Chemistry, Queen's University, Kingston, Ont.

Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.

Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729). He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms – such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M. B. Drapier – or anonymously. He was a master of two styles of satire, the Horatian and Juvenalian styles.

His deadpan, ironic writing style, particularly in A Modest Proposal, has led to such satire being subsequently termed "Swiftian".

Beth Pierce Robinson was born in July, 1920, the daughter of Lorne and Edith (Chown) Pierce. In 1942 she graduated in Occupational Therapy from the University of Toronto. Later she studied at the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt and the University of Maryland Hospital and Victoria College. In 1968 she received Re-certification in Occupational Therapy at Riverside Hospital, Toronto. In 1976 she received a diploma from the Toronto Art Therapy Institute. From 1943 to 1979 Mrs. Robinson worked in Occupational Therapy at a number of different institutions. From 1978 to 1988 Mrs. Robinson engaged in private practice in art therapy for adults. During the same period, she was part-time lecturer in the Department of Art Education and Art Therapy, Concordia University, Montreal and at Ontario College of Art. During her distinguished career Mrs. Robinson has written widely on occupational and art therapy. From 1949 to 1954 she was Editor of the Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy. In 1978 she edited The Learning Handicapped Child Responds to Art Therapy. In 1987 she wrote "The Art Experience" in Provincial Essays, Volume 5, November, 1987.

Louis Rosenberg was born in Gonenz, Poland and was taken to England by his parents at the age of 2 years. He was educated at the University of Leeds and upon graduation immigrated to western Canada in 1915 where he became principal of the Tiferes Israel School in Lipton, Saskatchewan, a community of Jewish farm colonist. From 1919 until 1940 Rosenberg was the western Canadian director of the Jewish Colonization Association in Winnipeg which had its headquarters in Paris, France. In 1940 he became executive director, Western Division of the Canadian Jewish Congress in Winnipeg, and in 1945, was appointed national research director of the Bureau of Social and Economic Research of the Congress in Montreal, a position from which he retired in June 1968.

Throughout his life Rosenberg took an active part in community affairs: as a scoutmaster in England, as chairman of the Regina Public School Board and of the Regina Public Library, and as an active participant in Jewish community organizations, in particular the Canadian Jewish Congress. A proponent of social democracy, Rosenberg was one of the founders of the C.C.F. and was one of their pamphleteers and speakers. Perhaps most noted in this respect was his series of articles "Who Owns Canada" under the pseudonym "What Hugh McCollum". In his research and writing Rosenberg concentrated on statistics and sociology. As research director at the C.J.C. he published a series of statistical and demographic studies of the Jewish community in Canada.

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D.A. McRae and Son was a Funeral Home established in 1890 as "D.A. McRae", a number of years later the "and Son" was added. The founder of the company was Donald McRae who died in January of 1938. Donald's son Archibald continued to run the business until 1966 when he passed away.

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Douglas Mackinnon Baillie Hamilton Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald, was a commanding officer of the Canadian Militia, and second son of Thomas Barnes Cochrane. He was born on 29 October 1852. He married Winifred Bamford-Hesketh on 18 September 1878. He died on 12 April 1935.